PackageKit policy: background and plans

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

otaylor wrote:

> This actually is one of the big advantages of PackageKit - because the
> installation is being done by a daemon rather than a process running in
> your session, if the X session dies during package installation, you
> won't be left with a half-completed transaction.

To what extent are yum/rpm/packagekit "transactions" databasey enough
so that they can actually be undone if the machine or process crashes
midstream?

- FChE